Concept Art From TMNT Defunct Live-Action Film Reveals Kirby The Fifth Turtle & So Much More

Check out lots of concept art that Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Turtles, created for a fourth live-action film that was never made. The images features multiple versions of Kirby the fifth turtle, Casey Jones with electrical fists and Evil April O'Neil.

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By nailbiter111 - 12/13/2012

Between 1995 and 1997 Kevin Eastman created concept art for a fourth live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie that was never filmed, which was tentatively titled, "TMNT: The Next Mutation." Below you can find many images of Kirby, the "fifth turtle," but also featured are Fang, Shredder, Spyder, Nano Spyder, Super Shredder, Kasey (Casey), Talbot, Lawson, Bugman, and Evil April.

In May, Kevin Eastman, co-creator of TMNT (the other being Peter Laird), put the concept art up for auction.
"The fourth live-action TMNT film was pitched and originally scripted as a grittier, less kid-friendly adventure, and to that end Kevin Eastman designed a more brutish, hardcore fifth Turtle, named for the legendary King of Comics (Jack Kirby)." - Heritage Auctions

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THIS is why you shouldn't trust ANYTHING Kevin Eastman says about the new movie being good. The man is a good artist (when he's reined in,) but he's a terrible idea man, and a sellout. Laird fought for years to get the rights away from him. Kirby... the fifth... AAAGGGGHHH!!!!